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Hi, [email protected], Welcome to Wikipedia!  

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BorgHunter (talk) 13:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Man, I have completely goobered up this article, and I can't seem to fix it. Dolchstosslegende. Everything I do makes it worse. Just wanted to add the reference to the Stalin Letter for those who wanted to read more about it. Help.

WP:WPA

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Thanks for fixing up the spelling/grammar mistakes on Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war. I appreciate it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)tswold 06:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Participant list

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I noticed you changed your participant listing on the anti-war project from your screen name of [email protected] to just Tswold. I don't blame you if you don't want to give out your Email in every post, but such is your screen name. If you want to change it, though, you can go to Wikipedia:Changing username, where they can change that, such as shortening to "Tswold". SchuminWeb (Talk) 15:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Fire Support Base Coral

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Thanks for adding on a word to this article. This may not seem like much but personally, I can be a real prick about grammar, spelling and sentence structure. You would be surprised how much your minor edits go toward making folks like me feel better. Well done, and keep it up :) SMC 14:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)Reply